After being beaten to the ground by a group of rockets, Pitino's face was like that of a dead old lady.

In the Celtics locker room, Pitino looked at the Celtics players without saying a word, if the eyes could kill, it is estimated that these players would die dozens of back and forth.

After being silent for a long time, Pibino said: "I want to know what you are thinking, you let the Rockets have only 7 people, don't you feel ashamed, do you deserve your jersey, in the Fleet Center Arena, do you want the Rockets to perform a miracle, let a team that can only play with 7 people beat you to the ground, do you really want to be the background of history, do you think I don't want to, in the second half of the game, you cheer me up, If you do lose, if you don't do your best then yours are waiting to be traded, and I think the Celtic shareholders will mind trading players who are not aggressive. Saying this, Pitino's eyes swept to all the Celtic players.

Although, the Celtic players did not say anything, but in their eyes there was already a raging fire.

In the Rockets' locker room, the Rockets' head coach Lao Tang is also arranging the Rockets' players with human tactics in the second half.

"Guys, there are 7 of us today, the Celtic will definitely press all of you at the beginning of the second half, it will consume a lot of your physical strength, you must try to save your physical strength, and strive to survive until the last moment, I don't want you to defeat them and create miracles, I hope you can hold on to the end and leave here with your head held high, which is our biggest victory." Lao Tang obviously didn't want his players to run out of energy or get injured for a game.

"Understand, coach, we know what to do." Bodi Roga said lightly but firmly.

Looking at Bodi Roga, one of the best players under his command, Lao Tang wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say, which made Lao Tang very entangled.

"Okay, I won't say anything, let's play." Looking at the upcoming second half of the game, Lao Tang was very worried, either worried about anything else or worried that these boys would fight too fiercely, and finally lead to his own injury, which would outweigh the losses.

However, if you want Lao Tang to say the game that they want to give up, Lao Tang still can't say it, and a team must also have the spirit of not bowing their heads in the face of any opponent.

The second half of the game started on time, and Pitino, who watched the Rockets regain some strength, felt uneasy.

Pitino thought to himself: I don't know what kind of offense the Rockets will play in the second half.

At the start of the second half, the Rockets abandoned their quick style of play and played the Bulls' 'triangle' offensive mode.

Such a tactic may be a tactic to save physical strength.

Under Bodi Roga's deployment, the Rockets completely suppressed the Celtics' offense from the beginning of the third quarter.

The rocket exerted a strong pressure on the Celts, and this pressure was technical, competent, mental and volitional.

Throughout the third quarter of the game, the Rockets used their skillful control of the game.

Little by little, the score is widening, 14 points, 16 points, 18 points.

The Celtics were slowly compressed like a spring.

Seeing this situation, Pitino was not worried, because he saw that the physical strength of the Rockets players was rapidly depleting.

The Celtics, on the other hand, always maintained the defensive intensity of the opening game.

Pitino believes that as long as it goes on like this, the rocket will be knocked out by itself.

Lao Tang on the sidelines also saw such a situation, all he could do was to let himself replace the two players on the field, replace the most physically exerted of the several people on the field, rest for a few minutes below, and then go on the field.

In this way, time passed little by little.

In the final three minutes of the third quarter, the Rockets began to collapse.

Crohill's empty three-pointer actually shot a 'three-no'.

Looking at the sweat on his body, he was already soaking through his jersey, and he couldn't run like he did in the first two quarters.

Seeing such a situation, Crohill immediately replaced Crohill with Jacques Vaughn, who had just been replaced.

Seeing the tired Crohill walking off the court, Lao Tang stepped forward and said, "Good job, Austin, you hurry up and rest, we still have the fourth quarter of the game." ”

Crohill nodded silently, panting heavily, and sat down in his seat, who had just been replaced by Saulus, also trembling his hands, and handed him a bottle of water, after Crohill opened the water, he took a sip gently, because they all knew that it was not suitable to drink water immediately after intense exercise.

Crohill, who took a sip of water, cast his eyes on the field.

While watching the Rocket's stamina run out, the Celtics began to fight back.

Kenny Anderson broke through Jacques Vaughn's defense and assisted on McCarty under the basket, who rolled over and hit the basket.

And behind him, the way of the bus, was squeezed away, which was unthinkable in the first half.

After nearly 35 minutes of high-intensity and fierce confrontation, the physical strength of the bus was also exhausted.

After the Celtics gained the advantage on the inside, the Celtics gradually mastered the situation on the court.

They went on a 10-0 spurt in two minutes.

quickly brought the score closer to 8 points.

Just when everyone thought that the Celtics could close the score to five points before the end of the game, the Rockets stepped up again.

That man was Bodi Roga.

After nearly 40 minutes of high-intensity confrontation, he almost exhausted the last trace of physical strength.

However, to everyone's surprise, at this time, Bodi Roga began to erupt.

First, he stole Walker's pass, and his own fast attack was outside the opponent's three-point line, and a precise three-pointer stabilized the situation on the court.

Then, catching the rebound protected by (Jr.) Mark Jackson, another three-pointer, once again stretched the score to more than 10 points.

At the end of the third quarter, 3.5 seconds into the game, a classic was staged.

Jacques Vaughan, who desperately snatched Kenny Anderson's ball, slapped the ball hard at Bodi Roga when his body was in the air, and Bodi Roga, who was standing 2 meters outside the three-point line, caught the ball and threw it, and after the red light came on, the ball hit with a "bang".

After the ball hit, all the players of the Rockets and Lao Tang jumped up excitedly.

Lao Tang raised his hands on the sidelines, screaming and jumping excitedly.

The Rockets led by 12 points again at 82:70 heading into the second half.

And the head coach of the Celtics could only smile wryly and shake his head, beckoning the Celtics players who were a little confused on the court to hurry back to the bench and arrange the tactics for the last quarter.

Terrible Rockets, this is everyone's cognition, how terrible it is for a team that can maintain such a fighting force in such a situation.

Many well-intentioned people know that the era of rockets is coming.

However, after the start of the fourth quarter, the game was completely controlled by the Celtics.

The huge disparity in physical strength made all the Rockets players feel powerless.

Rocket players on the court have eyes that can keep up with the opponent's movements. However, the body can no longer keep up.

Lao Tang could only watch his score be caught up and overtaken by the Celtics little by little.

Bodiroga was tired, and in a scramble, he was knocked out and fell to the ground.

The bus could no longer keep up with his opponent's footsteps, and he could only seize the time of each dead ball, his hands on his knees, gasping for breath, trying to recover his strength.

It's the same with Crohill, who no longer has the strength to shoot accurately.

And Saulius, the defensive giant, no longer has the stamina to fight.

All the rocket owners, there is no strength.

They could only watch as the Celtics wreaked havoc on their baskets.

Pitino's tactics finally paid off in the fourth quarter.

The Celtics, who were fully loaded, completely dragged down the rocket.

112：98

Throughout the fourth quarter, the Celtics scored a staggering 42 points, but everyone knows what that score is.

When the whistle blew at the end of the game, all the players of the Rockets were lying on the floor, and all the fans present stood up to applaud the Rockets, for their fighting spirit, for their spirit of never giving up.

After the game, Pitino praised the Rockets as a respectable team.

It was not easy to defeat the rockets, and today's victory was not easy to come by.

When it was Lao Tang's turn, Lao Tang just said something lightly

"Let's meet in Houston in a month."

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